Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 2 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 3 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 4 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 6 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 7 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 8 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 9 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 10 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
| 11 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 12 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |
| 13 | In winter the chestnut-seller installed himself at the edge of the market . |
| 14 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 15 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 16 | McCoist flung himself at the ball and beat Lukic with a wonderful diving header . |
| 17 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 18 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 19 | Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 . |
| 20 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
| 21 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 23 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 24 | 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind . |
| 25 | Gray said everyone at the club is deeply disappointed over the current situation but they all trying to put it right . |
| 26 | Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together . |
| 27 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 28 | In Cairo , Stirling based himself at the flat of his brother , Peter , who was an official at the British Embassy . |
| 29 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 30 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |